Forest Whitaker

Though actor Forest Whitaker started college on an athletic scholarship, the charismatic and award-winning performer made the unlikely shift from football to studying to become a classical tenor and e...
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Why Schwarzenegger Took on ‘The Last Stand’: 'This Is What the Fans Want to See'

Following an eight-year hiatus from Hollywood, courtesy of his time as The Governator (of California), Arnold Schwarzenegger has proven he is back – and is still a fully capable action star at 65-years-old. In his first starring role since Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Schwarzenegger teamed up with famed South Korean director Jee-Woon Kim for an entertaining, action-packed The Last Stand, bringing in plenty of laughs on the big screen.
After moving out of Los Angeles and leaving the city’s police department, Sheriff Ray Owens (Schwarzenegger) is living a simple life in the quiet border town of Sommerton. But when Gabriel Cortez (Eduardo Noriega), a dangerous drug lord escapes from Agent John Bannister (Forest Whitaker) and the FBI, heading towards Mexico, it is up to Sherriff Owens and his inexperienced staff, including gun-loving Lewis Dinkum (Johnny Knoxville) to save the day.
Hollywood.com recently sat down with Schwarzenegger and Knoxville to weigh in on the worst injuries they’ve suffered in their careers (gentlemen, you may cringe at Knoxville’s response), what appealed to Schwarzenegger about this film and why older guys in Tinseltown are still today’s action heroes.
“It was not like beating around the bush and pretending like I’m a 30-year-old action hero, but it acknowledges the age, and I even make a joke about the age,” Schwarzenegger explains about making fun of his elder age onscreen. “It’s like Clint Eastwood did in In the Line of Fire when he ran next to the president’s limo to protect him, and he all of a sudden ran out of breath and is huffing and puffing.”
The Last Stand hits theatres Friday, Jan. 18. Check out the interview with the odd couple below:
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The Titanic star will attend a special ceremony on 1 February (13) to receive the coveted American Riviera Award, which recognises influential artists in Hollywood.
A statement from the event's Executive Director Roger Durling reads, "We are thrilled to be honoring Leonardo DiCaprio with the American Riviera Award, in a year where he has shown us another layer of his immeasurable talent. His performance in Django Unchained reaffirms that he is the most relevant actor of this generation."
DiCaprio follows in the footsteps of previous recipients including Sandra Bullock, Annette Bening, Tommy Lee Jones, Forest Whitaker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kevin Bacon and Mickey Rourke.
The festival runs from 24 January (13) to 3 February (13).

We're currently in a Renaissance for older actors kicking butt on screen. From Taken to The Expendables, Hollywood is wising up to the fact that actors who pack thespian clout are just as badass as ones laden with muscles.
The latest example is A Dark Truth, which pairs Andy Garcia and Forest Whitaker for a thriller of espionage and action. Garcia plays Jack Begosian, a former CIA operative who is called upon by a corporate whistleblower to expose her company's cover-up of a massacre in a South American village. Surprisingly, it's not an easy assignment.
In Hollywood.com's exclusive clip from the film, Garcia's Begosian teams up with Whitaker's Francisco Francis, the key to getting the truth out intact. Before fleeing with his wife (Eva Langoria) and son, Francis and Begosian backtrack to help a few locals in need. That's when Garcia and Whitaker show off just what it takes to be Oscar-nominated. It's not just a BFA in Drama.
Check out the clip below. A Dark Truth. On-Demand November 29, 2012 and in theaters January 4, 2013
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In Living Color may have been the edgier rival to Saturday Night Live during its five season run on Fox, but that doesn't mean the alums of the defunct late night sketch comedy show have been unwilling to take the stage at Studio 8H. Like fellow alums Jim Carrey, Jennifer Lopez, and David Alan Grier, Oscar-winning actor/musician Jamie Foxx will be bringing his In Living Color sensibilities to SNL when he hosts for the second time in his career on December 8. Foxx, who will be promoting his role in Quentin Tarantino's latest Django Unchained, last hosted back in 2000 when blink-182 served as musical guests. This time around, he'll introduce R&amp;B star Ne-Yo.
While an In Living Color/SNL crossover seems unlikely (sorry to disappoint, Wanda fans) that doesn't mean Foxx can't produce some serious late night comedy gold. In fact, SNL should just let the 44-year-old star sort through his rolodex to call on famous friends for a digital short. Because, honestly, is there anything that's more unintentionally played like an SNL short more than the first 45 seconds of his "Blame It (On The Alcohol)" video with Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker, Samuel L. Jackson, and...Ron Howard?
The Foxx/Ne-Yo episode will be the first new SNL episode since this past weekend's lukewarm Jeremy Renner outing. Maybe they should stay clear of any Amazing Spider-Man 2 sketches as evident by The Avengers spoof misfire. Blame it on the A-a-a-a-vengers.
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The Last King of Scotland star set up his PeaceEarth foundation to help societies affected by conflict and violence, and the organisation has been focusing on troubled regions of Uganda and Sudan.
However, Whitaker also wants to address the issues facing developed countries such as Great Britain, where violence and looting broke out in cities including London and Manchester in August last year (11).
The unrest was blamed on rising poverty and high levels of youth unemployment, so Whitaker wants to step in and offer his help.
The actor tells British newspaper the Daily Telegraph, "We're setting our first sights on Uganda and Southern Sudan, but the thing we want to do with this foundation is to emphasise that it is youth in all countries that need our help - developing and developed... There is conflict everywhere, so I want to address it here in the U.K., too, with the riots that happened in Tottenham (north London). There is good work that can be done, we want to reach out to those people who feel anger and work out how to turn that."
Whitaker was unable to meet with members of the British government during his trip to the U.K. this month (Nov12), but he hopes to return soon to personally work with youngsters who were involved in the riots.
He adds, "I haven't met with the U.K. Government as I have to leave here soon - our focus is the communities, though. When we do the workshops, I'll be conducting some of them and I do mediation work so I will be working directly with those who were involved... I want to work with the British youth and London as urban cities are a priority."

Whitaker wowed cinema-goers and picked up a Best Actor Academy Award for his intense performance as former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in 2006 film The Last King of Scotland.
However, the star is adamant he would not want to attempt a movie portrayal of Obama because playing the American leader would be too daunting.
Whitaker tells Sky News, "No, I will be watching that one! He is too impressive a man, I wouldn't want to try. He is amazing - the things that he has done and the things he has accomplished."

With a resume that boasts the Back to the Future trilogy, Forest Gump, and a foray into animated film that explored state of the art performance capture techniques, Robert Zemeckis has become synonymous with special effects spectacles.
His newest film, Flight, could easily, based on its premise, be placed in that same category. A plane carrying 102 passengers malfunctions mid-air and a brilliant airline pilot, played by Denzel Washington, manages to land it against all odds. But that’s where the special effects trickery ends, and Flight takes a turn down a darker path rarely explored so deeply by Zemeckis.
This portrait of an American hero struggling with addiction and his own demons may surprise fans of the director, but Flight star Melissa Leo, who portrays National Transportation Safety Board investigator Ellen Block, was never caught off-guard. “He’s such a brilliant director,” Leo tells Hollywood.com. “I find is so amusing, this notion that Bob Zemeckis could be pigeonholed into a single form of filmmaking. With the accident we get to see his film trickery, and then to dive so deeply into an intimate portrait – it appeared that Denzel and Bob have a very wonderful working relationship.”
We sat down with Leo and her costars Kelly Reilly and Bruce Greenwood to chat about what Flight is really about, working with Washington and Zemeckis and yes, because we couldn’t resist, a little nugget about the upcoming Star Trek sequel from Greenwood.
Flight lands in theaters on Nov. 2.
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There are still nearly three months of movies to go before the end of the year, but that's not stopping Hollywood Film Awards from handing out a slew of 2012 honors and kicking the awards season into high gear.
Today the HFAs, a subsidiary of the Hollywood Film Festival, announced through The Hollywood Reporter that Bradley Cooper would be taking home the Hollywood Actor Award for his work in the upcoming film Silver Linings Playbook. The Hangover star's performance was already an awards contender after wowing audiences at the Toronto Film Festival, but Cooper now joins thespians like Russell Crowe and Forest Whitaker who have walked away with both the HFA trophy and a Best Actor award at the Oscars.
Joining Cooper in the winner's circle are Marion Cotillard, who picked the Hollywood Actress Award for Rust &amp; Bone, Hollywood Supporting Actress Award winner Amy Adams (The Master), and Robert De Niro for the Hollywood Supporting Actor Award, for his role starring opposite of Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook.
Director David O. Russell, who was nominated for an Oscar for his work on The Fighter, picked up the Hollywood Director Award for helming Silver Linings Playbook. To spice things, another major Oscar contender was found among the ranks of the HFAs: Ben Affleck's Argo picked up the Hollywood Ensemble Acting Award for a cast that includes Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, and Alan Arkin.
According to THR, in the past nine years, the Hollywood Film Awards honorees have gone on to garner a total of 85 Oscar nominations and 32 Oscars. Could this year replicate the success?
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"I felt pretty good about it, let me just say. Forest is a good kisser, how about that? Thank you, Keisha Whitaker." Oprah Winfrey on locking lips with actor Forest Whitaker, her movie husband in new film The Butler.

There's just something about dog movies. No matter who you are, what you've been through, or how thick a slab of stone you have in place of a beating heart, all you have to do is watch any movie about a faithful canine pledging love to a misguided human, and you've got a guaranteed supply of waterworks. The comedy/drama Red Dog upholds this tradition, inspiring tearful eyes and quivering chins with its story about the "most famous dog in Australia." Josh Lucas stars in the picture as an American truck driver who, while looking for work in the Australian outback, takes up an unexpected friendship with the titular canine — a Kelpie who made his home among the laborers of the Dampier Port, and then traveled across the continent in search of his owner when he goes missing. And believe it or not, this fantastic tale is a true story.
"They know the dog literally went all over Australia," Lucas tells Hollywood.com. "They have photographs as far down as Perth, and all the way to Sidney and Melbourne. Really, all over the map ... [Red Dog writer Daniel Taplitz] said that the only thing that he knows is not precisely true was that they don’t actually have any proof that the dog made it all the way to Japan [which he does in the film]. I was like, ‘Really? That’s it?’"
It's not only the trek to which the film stays true, but the spirit of the dog himself. Lucas recounts meeting with some of the older laborers who knew the real Red Dog, and hearing stories about his presence in their community. "I kept finding these people that would show me a photograph of Red Dog with a cigarette in his mouth and a beer in his paw, passed out asleep in their beds ... They’d say, ‘You’d be pissed off because you’d come home and Red Dog would be in your bed.’ You’d be like, ‘Well, why didn’t you just kick him out?’ And they’re like, ‘Oh, no. You’d never kick Red Dog out.’" Lucas laughed about this kingship the dog seemed to hold.
"Anytime Red Dog paid you a visit," he continues, "he was the honorary king. You had to give him all your food, and he slept in your bed, and had terrible gas. But everyone loved him so much, and everyone had their own special feeling that they were special to him as well. I thought that that was the most beautiful of it all."
That was one of Lucas' favorite elements of the movie. "[The movie] captures how people kind of yearn to be ‘the special one’ for the dog as well. That’s kind of the fun of this movie, too." So why was it, that with all these people out to win him over, Red Dog took specifically to Lucas' character John Grant (based on the real life John Stazzonelli)?
"[John] had come to that part of the Northwest territory," Lucas explains, "and felt like an outsider for quite a while. Australia — particularly in that time, and particularly in some of those outback communities — it would be a little bit forbidding and tough if you were not from that part of the world. There was a real… not fear of outsiders, but there was a real community-based thing. ‘We are Australians.’ ... And when John showed up on his motorcycle, it took him been quite a while. Red Dog was the one who broke the ice for him. And no one knows why he chose John."
But Lucas has his theories: "Everything I understand about Red Dog is that he was mysterious in ways. He was always the life of the party, but he also had this odd sensitivity to him ... He seemed to understand when people were in pain or hurting. He would sort of be there for them ... When John showed up, he was really a loner. He was really a guy on his own ... [He and Red Dog] definitely were bonded from the second that they met."
It is appropriate that Lucas would take on the role of John, the only man to whom the free spirited Red Dog pledges undying loyalty, as the actor himself is a devoted dog lover. "I really understood that love that so many people have for their animals," Lucas tells Hollywood.com, referring to his experience reading the script. "And how an animal can really impact a family or a community in such a way ... The movie really captured what I feel is that truly special connection that between an animal and a person. And in this case, a whole community.... I’ve had a couple of dogs in my life. All rescues. I’ve really always had that love, wild love, for the dogs."
Lucas even proved his devotion to the canine species with a sweet story from his childhood: "My mom was reminding me when she saw this movie, the first dog we found, he was abandoned at a ferry terminal in Washington State. And he and I slept outside for a year straight — every single night for a year, when I was fourteen years old."
The Red Dog star continues to share his life with a canine companion: "I have this fantastic relationship with my dog, who I’d rescued from a shelter in Harlem a number of years ago ... My dog now, he’s just a deep soul. He’s a very profound guy. Looks you right in the eye and seems to connect with everybody who he meets. In a way, a little bit like Red Dog."
So what it is about dogs that Lucas thinks is so magical? "Dogs have no ulterior motives," he says. "That’s it. There’s nothing about a dog other than loyalty and love. All they want is to be treated right, scratched, and fed a little bit, and they’ll die for you. I think that’s what people connect to. Their dogs are never doing anything for selfish reasons. There’s just something about dogs that people have, sometimes, the best relationships of their lives — more than their own children or their own families."
However, as much as Lucas loves dogs and was enamored by his Red Dog costar Koko, he has to admit that Koko was not quite cut out for show business. "Koko was incredibly difficult to work with because he hated acting. He hated it!" Lucas says. "His whole thing was, he would do it right once, and then, ‘Why would I want to do it again, man? I already did it!’ Then he would take off running. He would just bolt running. Obviously, it’s a movie; you have to do it over and over and over again. He was just like, ‘Nope. Done.’ And go run as hard as he could back to his cage. They retired Koko from acting the minute the movie was finished, and he’ll never act again."
But it was the dog's audition tape (which you can watch below) that helped to convince Lucas to sign on for the film in the first place. "I had gotten a phone call from my agent, saying, ‘There’s a chance that an actor is falling out of this project in Australia. And if you like the movie, you might have to go tomorrow,'" Lucas recalls. "I was like, ‘Really? Tomorrow? Australia? That’s a little bit much.’" But the script, and the involvement of Koko, were enough to bring him on board. "I read, honestly, the first 20 pages, and I liked it so much ... After 20 pages, I was like, ‘I want to do this.’ And then I saw — I don’t know if you’ve seen this thing on YouTube, you can look it up — the audition of Koko. The dog who plays Red Dog. And it’s great. It made me instantly fall in love with the dog."
The setting also contributed to Lucas' interest. "they showed these images of the place where they were going to film. Out in way remote Australia, where the movie takes place. I had been lucky and traveled through sections of Australia over the years; I’ve known so few people who have ever been to this place out in the middle of nowhere. It looked so beautiful. And knowing that no movie had ever been made there before, and that they were going to tackle this difficult land. Because the land, really, is forbidden. You only go there if you’re part of the mines. There’s no water. The land is literally made of metal. Truly incredible place."
And clearly, it all paid off: "So, all of it kind of came together. I was literally on an airplane the next day. I had one of the best experiences I’ve had making a movie out there."
Red Dog is now available on Blu-ray/DVD in the United States.
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Offered Oscar-winning performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland"

TV-movie directing debut, HBO urban drama "Strapped"; earned director's award for best first feature at Toronto Film Festival; Kiefer Sutherland acted in film and Whitaker repaid the favor by appearing that year in Sutherland's directorial debut "Last Lig

Played one of a trio terrorizing a woman and her child while looking for missing money in "Panic Room"

Guest starred on five episodes of NBC medical drama "ER" as a carpenter who ends up being paralyzed by a stroke after being admitted for a cough; earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series

Returned to the world of jazz as trumpeter Buddy Chester, a top sideman who discovers he has a malignant brain tumor, testing his friendship with Jeff Goldblum and Kathy Baker in Showtime's "Lush Life"

Cast opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in action feature "The Last Stand"

Played a Federal Marshall in HBO's "Witness Protection"

Co-starred in action thriller "A Dark Truth"

Executive produced Sundance Channel docu-series "Brick City"

Signed development deal with Columbia-TriStar

Directed first major stage production "Dreams Across the Realm"

Performed in Los Angeles productions after college, including "School Talk" (Mark Taper Forum) and "The Greeks" (Drama Studio London); also acted in "Jesus Christ Superstar," and "Beggar's Opera" (both at California Youth Theater)

Acted in Martin Scorsese's "The Color of Money" and Oliver Stone's "Platoon"

Summary

Though actor Forest Whitaker started college on an athletic scholarship, the charismatic and award-winning performer made the unlikely shift from football to studying to become a classical tenor and eventually, an actor. After gaining some attention in several stage musicals, Whitaker made an immediate impression with a small, but memorable role in his feature debut, "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (1982). Following a quick succession of supporting roles in features and on television, he earned his first wave of critical accolades for his portrayal of drug-addicted jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker in "Bird" (1988). Once he was established as a viable leading man, Whitaker easily oscillated between low-budget and studio projects, earning equal acclaim for his performances. Taking his career to the next level, he made several earnest, but ultimately mediocre forays into feature directing - most notably "Waiting to Exhale" (1995) - but continued to churn out one sterling performance after another until finally reaching new heights with his Oscar-winning portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland" (2006), which came hot on the heels of another mesmerizing performance as an obsessive internal affairs officer on season five of "The Shield" (FX, 2002-08). Both roles only confirmed what many had already known - that Whitaker was one of Hollywood's most versatile, surprising and talented actors of his day.

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Role

Comments

Autumn

Step-Daughter

Born 1991 to Keisha Nash; was flower girl at the Whitaker-Nash wedding

Born 1990 from a previous relationship; was ring bearer at father's wedding to Keisha Nash

Deborah Whitaker

Sister

Older

Education

Name

University of Southern California

Drama Studio London

California Polytechnic Institute

Palisades High School

Notes

"As a black man, Mr. Whitaker is especially pleased that some of his parts, including the ones in 'Good Morning, Vietnam' and 'The Color of Money' and one in Walter Hill's 'Johnny Handsome,' were at first written for white characters. 'I've been more fortunate than a lot of black actors,' said Mr. Whitaker." – from "Switching To a New Camera Angle" by Bernard Weinraub in The New York Times, Aug. 17, 1993

On filming "Strapped" in Brooklyn's Fort Greene district and using community residents in the film: "[Danger] was a big concern of the production team. But it was always my contention that we couldn't ignore the people that were there and move away to shoot the film: That's a big part of the problem, not looking at the situation and dealing with it. Once we were there, we had a blast." – Whitaker to Stephen Schaefer in USA Today, Aug. 19, 1993

"Directing is more comfortable for me, because as an actor there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person. I can spend a week in jail, but I'm still leaving. I once talked to a shaman who said, 'What makes you think these characters you play aren't real? I think you should examine that.' But it has always been my great frustration as an actor that I can't go deep into the thoughts, feelings and history of the character. As a director, I feel like it's real. I get caught up in the emotions and the story. I like being a storyteller." – Whitaker to Movieline, December 1996

"Both 'Exhale' and 'Hope Floats' are about people overcoming problems, trying to regain belief in themselves. These are themes I'll always address, whether in a male or female-driven film." – Whitaker to Los Angeles Times, May 24, 1998

"If you enslave people, beat and rape them, separate them from their families, force them to fight against each other – if you create that kind of abuse, of course it's going to be passed down generationally. Since it was only about thirty years ago when we couldn't ride in the front of the bus, there must be some acknowledgment of the past to feel good about yourself now. So to have an African-American film that's yours and is doing well and everybody loves it, that's not only a source of pride but a source of healing. When at a certain point, the healing has actually occurred, you can accept broader themes. Even though Jewish people are doing really well they continually, through their art, remind themselves of their past and recognize themselves as a cultural group. I feel if you have an acceptance of others you'll find the similarities between you and them are immense. The Judaic tradition and the Egyptian or Arabic traditions are almost the same." – Whitaker to Interview magazine, June 1998

About why he named his daughter True and son Ocean: "I want those names to be their destiny, for my daughter to be honest and my son to be expansive. I try to be like a forest, revitalizing and constantly growing." Forest knows an odd name can be hard for a child: "Kids would tease me, calling me 'Little Bush.' But, I thought being called Forest helped me find my identity." – Whitaker to Webster Hall curator Baird Jones, quoted in the New York Post, Dec. 11, 1999

On Nov. 3, 2001, Whitaker was arrested on suspicion of driving while under the influence.

Whitaker devotes most of his reading to "ancient texts" and philosophy books. He believes one's name is one's destiny: "I try to be like a forest, revitalizing and constantly growing." – from Biography, September 2002

Whitaker worked closely with a number of charitable organizations. He served as an Honorary Board Member for Penny Lane, an organization that provides assistance to abused teenagers. He was also involved with 4-D All Stars, a motivational mentor program for teenagers as well as The Watts Cinema Project.

In 2009, Whitaker was selected by President Obama as a member of the President's Committee on Arts and the Humanities.